When Blencathra Mountain was put on sale by its owner, the Earl of Lonsdale, local residents were furious – fearing their right to roam across its verdant slopes would be lost forever. But they are ...

A row featuring death threats and Facebook disputes has broken out over a campaign to buy a mountain in the Lake District. The story started in 2014 when Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, needed to ...

Writers from Wordsworth to Wainwright have been inspired by its brooding majesty. One of England’s top ten highest peaks, it commands magisterial views across the Lake District to north Wales, ...

Police are investigating after two members of a group set up to buy a Cumbrian mountain received threatening phone calls and videos. The victims are both members of the Friends of Blencathra, which ...

An offer above the £1.75m asking price has now been accepted for Blencathra When Debbie Cosgrove first climbed Blencathra as an 11-year-old schoolgirl from London, she thought there and then that one ...

Sir Chris Bonington has joined the community group set up to buy a Lake District mountain. He has become the honorary president of the Friends of Blencathra. There has now been more than £1 million ...

The $3 million price tag might be steep, but so is the property – an entire mountain in the beautiful English Lake District. Blencathra, a bleak curve-backed summit overlooking the northern end of one ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It would be the ultimate vanity purchase: snapping up one of the Lake District’s most celebrated mountains.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the biggest properties to come on to the UK market in recent years, Blencathra, a mountain in the Lake ...

When Debbie Cosgrove first climbed Blencathra as an 11-year-old schoolgirl from London, she thought there and then that one day she would move to the area. So when the striking Lake District mountain ...

When Debbie Cosgrove first climbed Blencathra as an 11-year-old schoolgirl from London, she thought there and then that one day she would move to the area. So when the striking Lake District mountain ...

When Debbie Cosgrove first climbed Blencathra as an 11-year-old schoolgirl from London, she thought there and then that one day she would move to the area. Now the striking Lake District mountain has ...